Secret email gives advice on denying climate change

[G_j]

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0404-01.htm
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4894758-102275,00.html

Published on Sunday, April 4, 2004 by the Observer/UK

Bush Attacks Environment 'Scare Stories'
Secret email gives advice on denying climate change

by Antony Barnett in New York

George W. Bush's campaign workers have hit on an age-old political tactic to deal with the tricky subject of global warming - deny, and deny aggressively.

The Observer has obtained a remarkable email sent to the press secretaries of all Republican congressmen advising them what to say when questioned on the environment in the run-up to November's election. The advice: tell them everything's rosy.

It tells them how global warming has not been proved, air quality is 'getting better', the world's forests are 'spreading, not deadening', oil reserves are 'increasing, not decreasing', and the 'world's water is cleaner and reaching more people'.

The email - sent on 4 February - warns that Democrats will 'hit us hard' on the environment. 'In an effort to help your members fight back, as well as be aggressive on the issue, we have prepared the following set of talking points on where the environment really stands today,' it states.

The memo - headed 'From medi-scare to air-scare' - goes on: 'From the heated debate on global warming to the hot air on forests; from the muddled talk on our nation's waters to the convolution on air pollution, we are fighting a battle of fact against fiction on the environment - Republicans can't stress enough that extremists are screaming "Doomsday!" when the environment is actually seeing a new and better day.'

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[gottaB]

1. Anybody surprised?

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/03/politics/03ADVI.html

We have a moral responsibility to pass a healthy and safe world on to our children and children's children. Unfortunately, this Administration puts politics and corporate profits ahead of protecting our environment. Time and again, they have sacrificed science and the truth to George Bush’s aides in the White House crossed out scientific references to climate change in an official EPA report. And according to reports, they replaced that language with text from a pseudo-study funded by the American Petroleum Institute.

http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/speeches/spc_2003_0917a.html

These guys have to be the most crooked bunch of lying--well, you know.

[G_j]

6. crooked bunch of lying--

Orcs?

[Flubadubya]

2. Aggressive lying...

The hallmark of the republican agenda and philosphy. Nothing new here! :puke:

[Jane Austin]

3. There is just nothing

This group of jerks will leave unslimed for their political purposes.

[mike_c]

4. "oil reserves are increasing...."

Ummm, well I suppose this might be consistent with a fundy creationist view of the world. Maybe. Somehow.

[LiberalFighter]

7. Well they are dinosaurs...

and if enough of them die and decay fast enough they might produce the oil we need.

[dae]

5. Well think about it, where does all that lava keep reproducing from?

:crazy: